What films scare you the most?

[Iain.Faulkner]

Pretty much the same as most for me, The Ring series was terrifying (Japanese originals) first time I watched them as was Audition....bit with the sack anyone?

 

IT I watched at a stupidly young age and still I don't particularly like clowns as a result of it.

 

The first SAW film was incredible as well, although very gory that ending completely blew me away and made 3 20 year old lads all check their wardrobes before they went to sleep that night :-)

 

I do have a slightly strange one though.....Little Shop of Horrors with Rick Moranis (yes the musical!)....watched it a few times as a kid and it always gave me the same nightmare.....bizarrely years later I watched the exorcist and found that my nightmare caused by Little Shop of Horrors is actually taken from the exorcist....weird :-)

[AMLinington]

I've always been freaked out by Sweeney Todd : Demon Barber of Seville...

 

I can't watch films or documentaries about it at all. (To clarify, I AM aware it is fiction, nevertheless...)

[PiqueABoo]

Doubt it works if you grew up first with the routine gore that followed later, but I recall at a relatively tender, impressionable age trying to practice building walls in my mind.. just-in-case.. having watched the original Village of the Damned. Crisply cut blonde hair, expressionless faces, glowing eyes and so on, preyed on my mind for months, if not years... those kids were believable monsters and scared me sh^H^H *lots*.

 

Edit: Carrie bothered me a bit later/older - not least the end (being the first film I'd seen with one of those endings).

Edited August 8, 2012 by PiqueABoo

[stevenlong1985]

I dont think Anyone has mention "REC" one of the most horrific and scary films I have ever seen! there also REC 2 and REC 3 out in September

 

[AMLinington]

Edit: Carrie bothered me a bit later/older - not least the end (being the first film I'd seen with one of those endings).

 

Now see Carrie made me sad - when I watched that I didn't find it at all scary - I just found it very very unfortunate. The way her mother is such a fundamentalist christian that she doesn't even tell her about the natural development of her body, the bullying at school, the destruction of her happy moment. Even the bit at the end where her friend has a traumatic hallucination. To me, it's not creepy, just sad.

[sonofsanta]

The original Ring for me as well, the way that every time you see the film, she's a little bit further out of the well... and that soundtrack... the only film that genuinely makes me scared of the dark for a fortnight afterwards. I love that the DVD extra of that film carries a disclaimer of legal responsibility before you watch it as well!

 

Paranormal Activity was quite good but somewhat spoilt for me by having to watch it in two halves over two nights - the wife got too tense and made me turn it off she can't stand anything creepy or atmospheric, I don't particularly enjoy gore, so neither one of us has ever seen a whole Saw film despite having watched them all together - she has to hide her eyes when the talking doll is on, I hide my face when, say, someone is being squashed between two walls, or having their arm sliced straight down the middle.

 

Drag Me To Hell was quite good recently. Not seen Woman In Black yet but wanting to. Also love me some Alien and Event Horizon, but was thoroughly disappointed by Pandorium (or w/e it was called) recently. Has anyone seen Apollo 18 to know if that's up to much?

 

 

Weird childhood film, though? ET. Saw it when I was 4 round an aunt's and for a year afterwards my parents had to open my wardrobe every night to prove to me that ET wasn't in there waiting to get me. Don't know what it was about him, but something just rubbed me up the wrong way*.

 

 

*stop giggling you perverts

[Disease]

Stephen King's IT - "We all float down here"

The Thing - Awesome Film

I made the mistake of watching the Korean version of "Shutter" after it being called the scariest movie ever made and people who claimed to be hardcore horror viewers, saying they were unable to sleep for days - it sucked.

I found paranormal activity laughable.

 

I think the film that left me feeling the bleakest is "The Road", it has no redeeming features and is just a bleak bleak story.

 

The 80's was the best decade for movies.

Edited August 9, 2012 by Disease

[tmcd35]

I do have a slightly strange one though.....Little Shop of Horrors with Rick Moranis (yes the musical!)....

 

I find most musical's scary, especially if they star Julie Andrews - but that's more the product of an abused childhood than the contents of the films

[PiqueABoo]

Now see Carrie made me sad - To me, it's not creepy, just sad.

 

Yup, although I'd call that scary too. It was ever so good at sad/awful for most of the movie.. didn't stop me jumping at the end though, probably made it higher. They're apparently remaking it with Chloe Moretz which is.. ughh.. I dunno.. losing the 70 kitsch wouldn't hurt, but Sissy Spacek was awesome in that role.

[AMLinington]

The 80's was the best decade for movies.

 

Despite the less polished special effects, I agree. Most of my 'guilty pleasure' films are from the 80s.

 

Crocodile Dundee, Romancing the Stone etc.

 

Star Wars is the only exception to this rule being 1977 and all that, but V and VI were in the 80's so that defo counts.

[HarryMonkey]

I'm not a great lover of modern horror films, they don't really do anything for me. Some of the Hammer films were very good though along with the Omen films. I saw The Exorcist when it first came out and that was scary ... I was much younger then though. I don't find scenes in films scary, I do find some unpleasant or disturbing ... the dentist scene from Marathon Man and, more recently, some of the scenes in Sanctum (but then that's because I dive).

[LiamH]

 

Mines a strange one but signs freaks me out.

 

Strange quiet children? check

Elusive aliens that aren't revealed from the start? check

terrible acting? check

 

Most gore/slasher films annoy me, the predictability and stupidity of the victims makes me somewhat root for the bad guy

[romita06]

the most scary movie i've watched was the Exorcist...a little girl possessed by a demon.The scares come from a place based in Faith, where Heaven and hell are as real as your beliefs in them care to be. Faith, for all the documentation on the subject, is tethered to the intangible; it's not something science can define or strategize. The demon that comes from The Exorcist's interpretation of that idea is something more powerful than a Freddy or a Jason. Something that can't be shot or stabbed or detonated.

[X-13]

it's not something science can define or strategize.

 

You underestimate science.

[speckytecky]

I don't think it has been yet but if ever Mo Hayder's The Devil of Nanking is turned into a film then that fabulously well written book would sure as heck make one totally scary movie. An absolutely fabulous read and although written as a novel based in no small part on historical fact.

[bushby]

michale jacksons thriller the only time i watched it was when i was 2 and thats because my parents wernt in the room and i placed the type in the vcr (yes i had one of them)

 

i dont like the saw movies eather to graphic (my mind makes it worse)

 

but paranormal activity thats just funny

[AMLinington]

michale jacksons thriller the only time i watched it was when i was 2 and thats because my parents wernt in the room and i placed the type in the vcr (yes i had one of them)

 

i dont like the saw movies eather to graphic (my mind makes it worse)

 

but paranormal activity thats just funny

 

I refuse to watch anything related to Saw. Or 'Human Centipede'.

 

I remember watching the original 'The Thing' at a tender age of about 9 and it scared me half to death - I had nightmares for weeks.

 

I still can't watch 'Jurassic Park' or 'Lost World' without having nightmares about Velociraptors afterwards, even at the ripe old age of 29! Every single time, without fail, after watching Jurassic Park I will have a nightmare involving Velociraptors getting into my house. Given that the key 'Scary bit' was the T-Rex, that doesn't feature at all, yet the Velociraptors are always creeping through my house and I'm hiding myself in wardrobes and cupboards trying not to breathe... It's quite horrible actually. It doesn't help that my Kitten is particularly 'pointy' and to wake up from a Velociraptor-related nightmare with a no-so-tiny-anymore predator gnawing on my arm or licking my face and breathing fish-breath on me isn't the most calming experience... lol

[LiamH]

I refuse to watch anything related to Saw. Or 'Human Centipede'.

 

I remember watching the original 'The Thing' at a tender age of about 9 and it scared me half to death - I had nightmares for weeks.

 

I still can't watch 'Jurassic Park' or 'Lost World' without having nightmares about Velociraptors afterwards, even at the ripe old age of 29! Every single time, without fail, after watching Jurassic Park I will have a nightmare involving Velociraptors getting into my house. Given that the key 'Scary bit' was the T-Rex, that doesn't feature at all, yet the Velociraptors are always creeping through my house and I'm hiding myself in wardrobes and cupboards trying not to breathe... It's quite horrible actually. It doesn't help that my Kitten is particularly 'pointy' and to wake up from a Velociraptor-related nightmare with a no-so-tiny-anymore predator gnawing on my arm or licking my face and breathing fish-breath on me isn't the most calming experience... lol

 

The original got me when i was younger but it was the spitting one that used to keep me awake. Didn't help having a big poster of it across my room with its frills out ready to strike..

 

Seeing the original Childs Play while young was bad, i was stopping at my friends house and we walked in on his older brother and friends watching it. I think because we only saw a bit of it my mind filled in the blanks to be much worse, and my grandma had an old doll that looked a bit like him sat ontop of the wardrobe in the room i used to stop in when i stayed over (i was quite young, first school at the time)

[Davit2005]

Spending a night in a tent with friend in my early teens watching Stephen Kings 'Salems Lot' on a portable battery TV in the middle of a field miles from civilisation.

[RabbieBurns]

Wolf Creek Is the name of movie that scare me the most.

 

Im looking forward to the sequel

[mac_shinobi]

Wolf Creek Is the name of movie that scare me the most.

 

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